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AWAKE AND SING! by Clifford Odets...
...dishonest decade" was the way W.H. Auden viewed the '30s; he was thinking of politics. Clifford Odets saw those years as a time when "every house was lousy with lies and hate"; he was thinking of the middle class. From the vantage point of a half-century, that appears to be all he ever thought about. It is not the most flattering way to remember the man who was once the lodestar of the Old Left. But then neither is the revival of his melodrama Awake and Sing...
Awake and Sing! is essentially a story of failed promise. But none was so glaring as the playwright's. Clifford Odets was one of the most applauded writers of his generation; he ended in Hollywood writing unproduced scripts, repudiating his old colleagues and furnishing names to the House Un-American Activities Committee when it came to investigate the film industry. As evidence of his political rightness, Odets showed the Congressmen a pan of Awake and Sing! in the New Masses: "A situation is created out of nothing just to get across a wisecrack." That is not an entirely unfair...
...Clifford Metting...